Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past weeks, many parts of Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) well over 400 – a level considered “severe” under ...

Pollution-weary residents of smog-hit Beijing turned to black humour to help cope with gruelling conditions Tuesday as a large swathe of China was covered by a thick blanket of haze for a sixth ...

Just weeks before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Chinese authorities restricted half of all private cars from the city's roads, alternating daily bans for number plates ending in even and odd numbers. The ...

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